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OCTOBER 29, 2014

The CEO, Phoebe Hayman, is an amazing entrepreneur who had built up this amazingly well-respected crafting company sold globally in high-end stores like Barneys, Harrods, Selfridges, Le Bon Marché in Paris, etc. She created the company in New Zealand and without raising any institutional capital had grown a global business.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? Of course we can’t.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

The song spread globally. He was fine with the bootleg – it helped build and audience and helped him globalize. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. He got people to do bootlegged mixtapes in new york, france and new zealand. He wanted to be bootlegged even more.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Since 1982 our partners have invested in some of the leading global brands you know today including Starbucks, Costco and PetSmart. When the process has closed I will update this post to say so.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Josh was a perfect fit for us because he is global president of Accuen , which is the data-drive, programmatic buying part of the global media empire that is Omnicom. In the Early Days.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% It’s my job to invest wisely in entrepreneurs who are capital efficient, who innovate in ways that pay off economically in good markets or bad and who plan for worst-case scenarios. That said, the IMF (international monetary fund) is more bullish.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

DogVacay is part of a new global movement some people are calling “ Collaborative Consumption.” He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. I have a close family member who lost her job and was in need of a bit of extra cash while she looked for work.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 Deflationary Economics now favors us.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

He travelled tirelessly to clients, data partners and to the UK to make sure the global organization was synchronized.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. He couldn’t have imagined power users would be global political figures, dictatorships, small factions of people standing up to the Iranian army or every sports figure & celebrity in the world. Far from it. Lots of it. It was an early and smart bet.

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JUNE 22, 2011

That said, for every set of global challenges there are entrepreneurs dreaming of solutions, solving big problems and ready to lead us into the next 20 years. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.

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JUNE 28, 2018

This is why so many great LA funds like Upfront, Greycroft and B Capital Global have all backed Bird. Bird is the natural evolution in billion-dollar++ outcomes in LA.

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MAY 30, 2013

The first time I met Andy Dunn he was working for the venture capital firm Maveron. We need more inventions that will solve global problems. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis' Debate helps everybody learn as I wrote about here. Let’s never stop debating important topics. *. by Dorrian Porter.

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JUNE 9, 2013

But as we now know 33% of the world’s population is now connected to the Internet, the majority of traffic to the major Internet properties is now global and at Benedict Evans pointed out in his recent report, more than 70% of the world’s literate population will have a smartphone within 4 years. Prices down. Network Up.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. And by using tech products they were able to market themselves to gay audiences globally where US radio in a way would have limited their success. Barbie looks a lot different than she did decades ago.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

These brave women who have taken on personal risks and faced doubters to change the culture globally to stop sexual misconduct, harassment & gender bias deserve the recognition x1000 along with the many other women who have spoken up. Real change is clearly needed. Men must speak up, too. Use this moment to STFU and get out of the way.

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JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. We live in heady times.

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APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. This team is talented.

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MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2015

To know that while acquiring a business in China will help you globalize faster it most certainly will take you off of your most immediate problems at home and that dominating your national opportunity first is far better than being spread thinly across two complex opportunities. It’s my job to help you find your True North.

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MARCH 3, 2013

We also spoke about technology systems in the perspective of global competition. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). .” Venture Capital. He talked about a unique model where you don’t have to become liquid in venture capital and can target singles & doubles.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. It is a global world – I plan to make sure I’m tapped into Europe, Israel and increasingly Asia to know what trends I can look for here in California. Now they have TV & NFC chips.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. It’s great to see Microsoft understand the importance of venture capital under the leadership of Satya Nadella and at Tact working with Rashmi Gopinath.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Open standards that make it easier to plug into other products & services, creating a global bazaar. Expect a deflationary revolution in the global telecom market – at a minimum for voice services. And with 6 billion global handsets you can imagine what an immense market this will be. is getting 3 million views.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. The last big recession was in the early 90′s where IT and globalization were in their infancy in terms of impact. We did not. Fundings boomed. We’re 2.5 What gives?

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Are LPs to blame?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. The great promise of the Internet was the ability to break down barriers and allow you to sell products and services globally, benefitting buyer and seller. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

A man who hinted at conspiracies of global financiers trying to wreck our system. He even took out a video ad in his final week with video showing many of these global Jews. It will try and draw conclusions about the changes that occurred with globalization, automation and technology. Are we surprised that the KKK endorsed him?

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